Excellent MSN Style Toast popper posted on 11:24 PM Been playing a little with my little stats app over this weekend, decided to add a little MSN-like notification function - this was made incredibly simple with this, a wonderful control by John O'Byrne which…
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Useful utilities from the man behind SnippetCompiler posted on 9:29 PM A whole heap of useful bits here. The Netping utility solves a problem I've had for a while - tying up IP addresses with machines...very handy! Oh, Jeff Key also makes the excellent Snippet…
Roy Osherove - Feedable, RSS feeds for sites that had none before... posted on 9:09 PM Umm...ok, over elaborate title...here's the link (oh, and subscribe to Dave Barry's blog, it's fantastic!)
Rewriting ASP.NET Urls posted on 10:57 PM One fairly interesting little article I read of late is Rewrite.NET, this is by far the best implementation of Url rewriting that I've seen for ASP.NET. In case you're not aware what Url Rewriting is, it is basically a…
Little Javascript tip...OnError for Images... posted on 1:03 AM This is an odd little tip...not sure where I found this out, but I use it a fair bit...if you have an image which you're not sure will be available, add this to the img tag:…
New personal crusade... posted on 3:11 PM Why doesn't the .NET implementation of Web Services support GZIP compression? I've found a couple of articlesdescribing how to implement it, but I'll have to do a bit of digging (my Reference.cs doesn't have the…
You can teach an old dog new tricks... posted on 4:07 PM To cut a long story short, even though I've used .NET since the first beta (in 1999), I never got around to using Winforms - no, really! I have developed winforms apps in VB6 and swing apps in Java, just…
Things I wish I'd known before this: Part 1 (of several million) posted on 6:21 PM I did not know this was possible or so easy! Just found out you can extend XSLT (so you can use bits of code in there) from C# have a look here and here for the lowdown... This…
Really useful ISO opening tool - Undisker posted on 4:05 AM I download lots of ISOs from MSDN and others for evaluating software, developing etc...To be frank, burning all these to CD is a pain. I have recently stumbled upon a great tool called Undisker -…
Amazingly interesting project by Steve Tibbett - read RSS feeds in any Newsreader! posted on 7:35 PM Just noticed on Scott W's site, hidden in one of the comments is a link to a project called Syndicache, this is a stunningly interesting idea. What this seems…
Quick answer... posted on 4:20 AM How do you enable caching for the RSS control? Well, in the RssDisplay.ascx, add the following line after the <%@ Page%>declaration: <%@ OutputCache Duration="1200" VaryByParam="none"%> This will cache the output (and…
New Favourite Toy - Xml Serialization for generating Xml Feeds posted on 7:41 PM I've previously used Xml Serialization for loading and saving config files into and out of apps - nice use...What I've done recently though has been very useful - for me at least.…
Perhaps a true revolution is starting, this article from Wired basically points out that despite having significantly fewer resources, Apple is still surviving - and prospering. This got me to thinking, the Open Source movement thus far has been largely…
Over the years I've pretty much used every anti-spam measure in existence. The only one I've found that actually works (and it is pretty much faultless, 100+ spams caught daily, 0 false positives!) is SpamNet, this has recently become pay-ware ($3.99 a month…
So, Microsoft is stopping development of IE on the Mac...http://tantek.com/log/2003/06.html#L20030613t1318. It has also announced that no new versions of IE will exist before longhorn. This is a very odd situation and the implications of this decision are…
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